ObsEva SA
Novel therapies for women's reproductive health
This article was originally published in Start Up
Executive Summary
Despite many improvements in the last 25 years, there continue to be serious unmet medical needs in the area of reproductive health. ObsEva SA, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Geneva, Switzerland, aims to address some of those needs with novel oral drugs for three highly prevalent reproductive health-related challenges: endometriosis, pre-term labor, and repeated implantation failure in women undergoing in vitro fertilization.
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